After a warm welcome and a short presentation about the base itself, we started our base tour. First we stopped at a hangar where we found a stored Fouga Magister. Two more aircraft of this type were preserved next to this hangar. After hese aircraft we moved on to the Marchetti platform. This is the main platform on this base where the Marchetti's of the Belgian Air Force could be found.
After our tour on the Marchetti platform, we moved on towards the maintenance hangar of the Alpha Jet. There wasn't too much to photograph; most Alpha-Jets were decomposed because they were in maintenance. The aircraft inside this hangar were completely under construction. Hereafter we went to the old F-16 shelter area of the base. There were three F-16's over there, two inside a hangar and one outside on the platform. The F-16's aren't operational anymore and they were used for training purposes of ground crews. The last stop was the maintenance hangar of the Marchetti. In the old F-16 area was nothing left to see anymore. Also in this hangar aircraft were decomposed into small parts because of their maintenance.
We would end our base tour with a small visit to the museum which is located next to the main entrance of Beauvechain. Most of the airplanes were ex Belgian Air Force, but there were also a pair of Mig-21's. Especially the silver-coloured Starfighter next to the building of the museum was very nice and well kept. Furthermore, this museum had a few other nice aircraft in its collection like the Gloster Meteor, Hawker Hunter, RF-84 Thunder Flash, T33 Tbird, SF260 Marchetti and an F-16A Fighting Falcon. The Belgian Ministry of Defence announced that they will close down Bierset due to reorganizations. The entire Belgian helicopter fleet will move because of that from Bierset to Beauvechain.
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| SF.260D Belgian Air Force ST-45 |
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| SF.260M+ Belgian Air Force ST-23 |
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| SF.260M+ Belgian Air Force ST-36 |
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| SF.260D Belgian Air Force ST-45 |
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| SF.260M+ Belgian Air Force ST-06, ST-30, ST-18, ST-24 SF260D Belgian Air Force ST-48, ST-45 |
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| SF.260 Belgian Air Force |
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| SF.260D Belgian Air Force ST-48 |
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| Hunter F58 Swiss Air Force J-4077 |
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| Alpha Jet B+ Belgian Air Force AT17, AT12 |
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| Alpha Jet B+ Belgian Air Force AT10, AT03 |
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| MiG-21bis German Air Force 24+29 |
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| Mirage 5BR Belgian Air Force BR10 |
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| RF-84F Belgian Air Force FR32 |
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| F-104G Belgian Air Force FX-47 |
